Less than half an hour from the Severn Bridge, Cwmcarn has some great Downhill and Cross Country trails providing a sure-fire way for serious mountain bike riders to get their fix.Roland Stack is one...
A new, and extremely comprehensive, Rolling Bearing catalogue has just been release by SKF, replacing their General Catalogue. The new rolling bearings catalogue has almost 1,400 pages and covers no less...
The process to make a ball inside a ball bearing perfectly smooth and spherical every time is surprisingly neat.
Detecting failure in railway bearings is notoriously hard but innovations in equipment are making monitoring increasingly precise.
Did your failed bearing go blue? There are two reasons why this has happened. Find out what they are so you don’t make the same mistake again.
Ball bearings in watches make everything tick with unrivalled precision, making the time piece...timeless!
All predictions of the lifespan of a ball bearing are based on the Lundberg and Palmgren theory.
Acorn’s Central Distribution Centre in Rotherham will relocate to new premises between the 20th December 2012 and 2nd January 2013.The new 40,000 sq ft premises, located just off junction 1 of the...
Urban and rural environments are really different and they put different stresses on heavy equipment accordingly.
The tiniest miniature ball bearing in the world is smaller than a grain of rice and can rotate at a speed of over 5,000 rpm.
Ball bearing failure is expensive and frustrating but there are several common sense steps you can take to prevent it if you follow these tips and hints.
Original thinking brought a group of students from the 80s to send their stainless ball bearing experiment up into space in the early 2000s.
Belt drives are, for the most part, trouble free, but because of that, their maintenance is often overlooked. We’ve put together 5 Belt Drive Enemies to look out for. Keeping these five enemies at bay...
Without an assortment of high precision bearings, much of the moving equipment on the Mars rover 'Curiosity' wouldn't be possible. What roles do these parts play exactly in NASA's latest adventure to...
Fitting a new v-belt to a drive can be a nightmare for a maintenance engineer – particularly if you have to totally dismantle the drive in order to fit the belt. Firstly, you check you’ve got the right...
Ceramic bearings weigh less than their steel counterparts and are extremely durable. They're also chemically inert and not very sensitive to moisture, placing them as a contender against the traditional...
It's easy to forget just how useful the bearing is; bearing technology was invented by the ancient Egyptians and since then has permeated nearly every aspect of engineering.
Mining has always traditionally been a dirty, intense, claustrophobic and very dangerous job to carry out and is an industry which has caused countless accidents and deaths, but over the centuries the...
